1.	Most horses are happy to live in the pasture as much as possible.  If you have room for extended turnout, leave your horse out as it will decrease your stall cleaning time and cost you less in bedding supplies.
2.	Create a compost pile for your manure and used bedding.  Gardeners love manure compost and will remove it for free. They may even pay you for it!  Advertise on free sites like craigslist.org, or contact your local garden club.
3.	Recycle your supplement tubs. They make handy storage containers.
4.	With a little creativity, odds and ends can become jumps or dressage letters, trail obstacles, etc. Our barn has cheap white garbage cans filled with sand and stuffed with fake flowers serving as dressage letters. They are easy to move, and won't hurt the horse if kicked or run over.  Add a few dressage  sticker letters and you have a professional looking ring.
5.	Old stall mats can be used on the wash rack if they are textured.
6.	Metal closet organizing systems work well in tack rooms and can often be found at garage sales or on craigslist.
7.	Invest in a multi-use tool and keep it in your tack box so you don't have to have several tools around.
8.	Lysol sprayed on the walls of the stalls will help keep spiders and flies away.
9.	Wal Mart sells a great muck or water bucket. Looks identical to the real thing, has rope handles and it only 6.00- Charlotte in FL
10.	The cheapest stall floor is dirt with a thick layer of shavings on top. It is soft on your horse and drains well.
11.	Save water - have a spray nozzle attached to your hose.
12.	You don't need expensive stall toys.  Clean out a milk bottle well and fill with molasses. Poke a few small holes in it and tie it to a tree or rafter. Your horse will spend hours licking the jug to get the molasses out.
13.	Invest in a temporary, moveable electric fence and section off a portion of your horse's paddock to rest.  This will allow you to reseed and fertilize while still allowing your horse grazing space.
14.	Take care of your horses pasture!  Quality grass and a well maintained fence line will save you on the cost of feed, hay, and vet bills.
15.	A small football placed in a water bucket overnight can prevent freezing.  (any round ball will work as it is the moving of the ball that prevents freezing).  If the water does freeze over, you can push the ball through to break the ice.  If you put an apple in the bucket, the horse may play with it enough to prevent the water from freezing.
16.	A broken freezer chest is a great way to store feed, blankets, or any other number of barn items.  It is airtight, rodent and bug proof, and often found for free at garage sales or on craigslist.
17.	A piece of old carpet underlay can make a good pretend ditch for schooling (blue for water jumps - black for ditches - or any other color for desensitizing).  You can fold it up to start with a narrow strip and gradually roll it out as the horse becomes more familiar with it.
18.	Spray fencelines with weed/grass killer. IT will keep the horses away from fences and hopefully keep injuries and fence repair from happening.- Charlotte in FL
19.	Carpet tubes make good lightweight jump poles, and can be painted any color you want.
20.	Can't find your scissors or a knife when cutting hay strings?  Get another string and put it underneath the bale string. Pull the string quickly up and down and the heat will break the string in a few seconds.
21.	To treat wood fences - go to your local garage and ask for used engine oil. They will happily give it to you and it can be used to dip fence posts in prior putting them in the hole, and for painting the boards. It will preserve the wood as well as creosote. Don't let the horses out on it until it's dry or you'll have a zebra!  Also - know that it won't come out of your clothing.
22.	Construction sites frequently have wood trash that can be converted into jumps.  Be sure to speak with the construction supervisor first, and then get creative with brush boxes!
23.	A cheap jump standard can be made by setting a PVC pipe upright in a bucket of cement (old supplement buckets work great). Drill holes in the PVC pipe for the jump cups.
24.	Anti Cribbing Recipe: 2 cups water 1/4 cup red pepper flakes 1/8 cup garlic powder 15 drops hot sauce 10 garlic cloves sliced 1/8 dried crushed garlic Simmer for 10 minutes. Allow to cool and paint on needed area.  Warning - this will stink up your house if made indoors!
25.	Cut the bottom out of a supplement tub and nail it to the wall about 12" from the ground - great place to organize your whips. PVC will do this as well and can be capped at both ends.  Three bean cans with both ends removed and attached to the wall with 12" between each section will also make a good whip holder.
26.	Have an old broken jump pole?  Saw it into 2" sections and attach them to the walls as bridle racks.
27.	Inexpensive electric fence pole can be tied together ladder style and hung from the ceiling for a saddle pad rack.
28.	Old broom handles can be tied up with string to support blankets.
29.	Haystring run through a PVC pole will make a blanket rack. - Charlotte, FL
30.	Go to the local lumber yard and getting "cull ties" for posts (big, heavy, treated and sturdy--and FREE), use mining belts for stall mats, pick up empty buckets at the local deli, etc. Get "o boards" at the lumber yard--it's boards they can't sell, and used them to get the barn going. Of course now I want to replace them, but they were a Godsend when I needed a barn and had no money.- Anonymous in FL
31.	Do you have a barn tip that you would like to share? Please email me!